drug wars are not inherently bad. i don't agree with so-called leftists who argue that; real socialists hate drugs. it's the libertarian right free market capitalists (rand paul) that have these ideological problems with fighting drug traffickers, not socialists or communists. drug dealers would face expulsion or execution in any sort of real socialist society. in china or even in cuba, they'll sentence you to death for selling certain drugs, and i agree with that, in principle, while not supporting capital punishment. they ought to be sentenced to death, they ought to be shot in the face from the side while forced to look at themselves in the mirror, but i wouldn't support actually killing them, i'd just support locking them in a cell for perpetuity, until their bones start decomposing into calcium. dealing drugs is amongst the worse crimes against humanity possible.

i say let the neighbours string the local drug dealers up on the nearest fucking tree; i say stop protecting them, and let them face the wrath of the families they destroyed. the police spend more time protecting drug dealers from vigilante justice than they do arresting them. it's a symptom of a sick, consumer capitalist society, where selling anything at all, no matter how antisocial, is seen as just participating in the system, just trying to get by.

but drug wars, like tariffs, are hard. it's not an easy problem, and donald trump is not somebody i'd have confidence in to figure this out.